Trinity Peninsula

Geographical location

The Trinity Peninsula ( often also called " Trinity Peninsula " ) is the outermost northeastern foothills of the Antarctic Peninsula, and thus a part of Graham Lands. The peninsula extends approximately 130 kilometers to the northeast. For more than a century different names such as Trinity, Palmer and Louis Philippe are used by cartographers, each of which includes a historical appraisal. The recommended name comes from Trinity land, as Edward Bransfield the area in January 1820 baptized, even if the exact use is not known and Antarctic historians is controversial.

History

Because of their far pushed out to the north location, the Trinity Peninsula was early and repeatedly target of Antarctic expeditions. End of January 1820 Edward Bransfield sighted from the ship, the Trinity Peninsula, one of the first sightings of the Antarctic continent at all. Wahrscheintlich however, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen few days before the first Antarctica spotted at the Princess Martha Coast ( it remained unclear, however, whether Bellinghausen only ice or less located land sighted ). The Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903 discovered the Antarctic Sound, between the Trinity Peninsula and the Joinville Islands. 1949 led a Chilean expedition first flights over the Trinity Peninsula.